Put on your conservative hat :) Read it with a critical eye for flat statements which, themselves, are either debatable, or presented as fact without supporting documentation.

I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader to figure out where they are :) I'll be posting a longer response to myself at some point... just not today.

(EDIT: No, I won't. It's been explored already. I'll leave it as, I agree with this kid, and wish I had had the gumption to write what he wrote as a teenager. But I was on the other side of the fence: gung-ho about patriotism, democracy, Grandma and apple pie. I'm a bit more cynical today.)

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Matthew P. Barnson